Word: tango
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a year of meetings, alumnae protests, media scrutiny and competing plans for the future, Cambridge's longest tango came to an end when Harvard and Radcliffe announced their intent to merge...
After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 1995, Lan took up organ-playing at Memorial Church, and served as president of the Society for Physics Students. Lan also learned to tango so she could choreograph Stravinksy's tango from 1940, which she researched for her thesis...
...Like the tango, Lan insists that many of her current interests and projects were picked up quite by accident. She is teaching herself Japanese because she won a summer fellowship from the music department to study the culture of the tango in China, Japan and Taiwan. She brushes up on high school German to read the papers of Einstein, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in their original German, and she is currently composing a piece for chorus and orchestra in Chinese because her mother happened to be "listening to a lot of Chinese music" when Lan went home to New York...
...Wheeldon can do much more than conjure up spun-sugar fantasies. The witty Soiree Musicale, which the school premiered last year, for instance, contains a show-stopping tango in which a femme fatale picks up new partners one by one, eventually dancing with a dozen admirers simultaneously. And Corybantic Ecstasies, given its premiere in March by the Boston Ballet, is a tough-minded, tautly argued work that shows off Wheeldon's ability to infuse the disciplined language of classical ballet with high emotion...
Scenes such as those from a majestic company tour of India and of an opening night performance in New York make the dancers' excitement and energy almost palpable. Fantastic productions and crisis situations seem to be all in a day's work. The film even tracks a tango-inspired ballet, "Piazzolla Caldera," from initial inspiration to final fruition. Director of photography Tom Hurwitz does a superb job of transporting the audience from intensive rehearsals to exhilarating shows...